Letter from Senator Robert Byrd to Anthony Principi discussing the importance of the West Virginia National Guard's 130th Airlift Wing and mentioning the forthcoming North Carolina Field Hearing.

This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of West Virginia.